Monthly Archives: June 2015

How to Implement Lean Manufacturing – Sort and Shine (5S): Part 5

We left off at Implementation Schedules and Red Tag areas. So, by now, your teams should be regularly stopping their […]

A Good Lean Case Study….Sort of

I found this article (Case Study: VIBCO’s Lean Transformation Journey) while scouring around for lean blogs to recommend. I was actually […]

One of Our Problems in Promoting Lean is that the Press Misrepresents Lean

I’ve spoken and written fairly often about my insistence that lean isn’t about cost-cutting. In fact, a focus solely on cost cutting […]

Video on Kanban in Healthcare that You Need to See

My experience is that good definitions, descriptions, and case studies of effective kanban are hard to come by. It’s the […]

DMAIC

I’ve been developing materials for a series of client workshops on DMAIC. (It’s an acronym that stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, […]

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